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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's the Common App that's behind this. Severely curb or eliminate the common app, and you're back to students applying to 6-8 schools. [/quote]

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Colleges don't want this.

Kids don't want this.

It doesn't magically create more seats where people want to go - it just increases the odds they ill get shut out and limits their options.

Worst.  Idea. Ever.[/quote]

Wrong. College admissions officers do NOT want to be flooded with applications. They are burned out, short-staffed, and suffer from low morale. They do NOT want what the Common App has created.[/quote]

You could not be more wrong about what colleges want.  Yes AOs are overworked and underpaid.  They always have been.  All colleges want as many applicants as possible to build he class they want from.  All of them.  That's why elite colleges send email recruitments and even still mail expensive brochures.

If they didn't want what the common app offers, guess what they would do?  They LOVE the common app.  Many more applications for much less cost.

You are just flat out wrong.[/quote]

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